Capacity
A category including news related to increasing output and production of ports. Additional port equipment adding capacity; port expansion adding cargo capacity, shipping lines adding larger vessels and increased land traffic capacity by rail and road.
Expression of interest for construction of LNG bunkering facility in Naples port
Naples, Italy (PortSEurope) January 8, 2018 – Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar Tirreno Centrale (AdSP – Central Tyrrhenian Sea Port...
Project for installation of new floating cistern by COSCO starts in Piraeus port
Piraeus, Greece (PortSEurope) January 7, 2018 –Â New data on the docking of vessels for shipbuilding and repairs will be made by the installation of the...
Reganosa supplies first European passenger train powered by LNG from Ferrol port terminal
Ferrol, Spain (PortSEurope) January 7, 2018 –Â The first cargo of liquefied natural gas (LNG) has just been delivered by means of a truck to Asturias, a...
Civitavecchia port official to attend road promotion event
Civitavecchia, Italy (PortSEurope) January 6, 2018 – A press conference is scheduled for Thursday 11 January 2018, entitled “2017 one year on the...
Sardinia’s Porto Torres sees call for investment
Porto Torres, Sardinia, Italy (PortSEurope) January 6, 2018 – Porto Torres has experienced a fall in traffic, security problems and poor services for...
Fincantieri looks for more space in Ancona port
Ancona, Italy (PortSEurope) January 6, 2018 – Fincantieri, the Trieste-based shipbuilder, has requested €40 million ($48.1 million) in state aid to...
Marseille-HAROPA rail links to improve cargo transport times
Marseille, France (PortSEurope) January 6, 2018 –Â The concerted efforts of the two major French seaports have made it possible to achieve and implement...
Mykolaiv port to build parking facility for heavy transport vehicles
Mykolaiv, Ukraine (PortSEurope) January 6, 2018 – In order to solve the problem of overloading city streets with trucks, Mykolayiv port has initiated...
Valencia port lags behind Barcelona in terms of logistics space
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) January 5, 2018 – While the president of the Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia), Aurelio MartÃnez,...
Cádiz port to open new container terminal in 2020
Cádiz, Spain (PortSEurope) January 5, 2018 – Cádiz port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de la BahÃa de Cádiz) president José Luis Blanco Romero has...
Eurogate increases crane capacity in Limassol port
Limassol, Cyprus (PortSEurope) January 5, 2018 – Eurogate, the container terminal operator, is to install an additional seven container gantry cranes, in...
DP World Group start operations in Ukraine
Yuzhniy, Ukraine (PortSEurope) January 5, 2018 – P&O Maritime, a company owned by port operator DP World Group, started to operate in Ukraine in...
Port Authority of Bilbao summarises its ongoing activities
Bilbao, Spain (PortSEurope) January 4, 2018 – Autoridad Portuaria de Bilbao (Port Authority of Bilbao) currently has the following works in...
Cádiz port to invest €21.2 million in 2018
Cádiz, Spain (PortSEurope) January 3, 2018 – Cádiz port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de la BahÃa de Cádiz) plans to invest €21.16 million ($25.43...
Ireland aspires to steal fish traffic from Spain’s Vigo port
Vigo, Spain (PortSEurope) January 3, 2018 – Ireland’s government has chosen Castletownbere to build a warehouse for the storage of fresh and frozen...
COSCO sets up OceanRail Logistics in Greece
Piraeus, Greece (PortSEurope) January 3, 2018 –Â Chinese COSCO Shipping and Ports Limited has announced the setting up of OceanRail Logistics S.A. The...
Puertos Canarios analyses improvement of harbour accessibility
Las Palmas, Spain (PortSEurope) January 2, 2018 – Puertos Canarios, the operator of regionally-owned ports at the Canary Islands, has carried out a study to...
Naples port to start handling larger ships in summer of 2018
Naples, Italy (PortSEurope) January 2, 2018 – Naples port expects to complete its dredging project at the end of 2018, but could start handling large...
Ceuta call for links to Moroccan ports
Ceuta, Spain (PortSEurope) January 2, 2018 – Ceuta president, Juan Vivas (PP), has formally made a request to the central Spanish government for the...
EBRD Ukrainian loan to improve connectivity between industrial and agricultural areas and key ports
Odessa, Ukraine (PortSEurope) January 2, 2018 – The EBRD is to make a loan to Ukraine to increase efficiency of Ukrainian Railways (JSC Ukrzaliznytsya...